A wet basement often starts at the gutter.
One inch of rain on an average roof is well over a thousand gallons. Every drop has to land somewhere. Here's where it goes wrong.
Too small for the roof
In a hard rain, water sheets over the front edge and lands right at the foundation.
Wrong pitch
Water sits in the gutter, freezes in winter, and the extra weight pulls it off the fascia.
Too few downspouts
One downspout can only carry so much. Long runs back up and overflow at the corners.
Water dumped at the wall
A downspout that ends at the house pools water against the foundation, and it finds the basement.
Sized for your roof. Pitched to drain.
- 01 Measure what drains to each runWe look at the roof area and pitch that feed every stretch of gutter, not just the length of the house.
- 02 Size the gutters and downspoutsBigger roofs and steeper pitches get bigger gutters and more downspouts.
- 03 Set the drip edgeWater should drop off the roof straight into the gutter, never behind it into the fascia.
- 04 Pitch every runEach run slopes toward its downspout, so nothing sits and freezes.
- 05 Hang it for snowHidden hangers, spaced close enough to carry ice and snow load.
- 06 Carry it awayDownspouts end with extensions that move the water away from the foundation.
Sized for your roof. Pitched to drain.
- 01 Measure what drains to each runWe look at the roof area and pitch that feed every stretch of gutter, not just the length of the house.
- 02 Size the gutters and downspoutsBigger roofs and steeper pitches get bigger gutters and more downspouts.
- 03 Set the drip edgeWater should drop off the roof straight into the gutter, never behind it into the fascia.
- 04 Pitch every runEach run slopes toward its downspout, so nothing sits and freezes.
- 05 Hang it for snowHidden hangers, spaced close enough to carry ice and snow load.
- 06 Carry it awayDownspouts end with extensions that move the water away from the foundation.
Sized for your roof. Pitched to drain.
- 01 Measure what drains to each runWe look at the roof area and pitch that feed every stretch of gutter, not just the length of the house.
- 02 Size the gutters and downspoutsBigger roofs and steeper pitches get bigger gutters and more downspouts.
- 03 Set the drip edgeWater should drop off the roof straight into the gutter, never behind it into the fascia.
- 04 Pitch every runEach run slopes toward its downspout, so nothing sits and freezes.
- 05 Hang it for snowHidden hangers, spaced close enough to carry ice and snow load.
- 06 Carry it awayDownspouts end with extensions that move the water away from the foundation.
Sized for your roof. Pitched to drain.
- 01 Measure what drains to each runWe look at the roof area and pitch that feed every stretch of gutter, not just the length of the house.
- 02 Size the gutters and downspoutsBigger roofs and steeper pitches get bigger gutters and more downspouts.
- 03 Set the drip edgeWater should drop off the roof straight into the gutter, never behind it into the fascia.
- 04 Pitch every runEach run slopes toward its downspout, so nothing sits and freezes.
- 05 Hang it for snowHidden hangers, spaced close enough to carry ice and snow load.
- 06 Carry it awayDownspouts end with extensions that move the water away from the foundation.
Sized for your roof. Pitched to drain.
- 01 Measure what drains to each runWe look at the roof area and pitch that feed every stretch of gutter, not just the length of the house.
- 02 Size the gutters and downspoutsBigger roofs and steeper pitches get bigger gutters and more downspouts.
- 03 Set the drip edgeWater should drop off the roof straight into the gutter, never behind it into the fascia.
- 04 Pitch every runEach run slopes toward its downspout, so nothing sits and freezes.
- 05 Hang it for snowHidden hangers, spaced close enough to carry ice and snow load.
- 06 Carry it awayDownspouts end with extensions that move the water away from the foundation.
One job, start to finish.
Wanaque · new roof and gutters
"It's so nice having all the rain go out the downspouts instead of over the gutters!"
Gutter questions.
Yes. Doing them together means one crew, one cleanup and a drip edge that ties in correctly.
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